skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the initial production from this plant is spoken for. Part of the deal that secured the funding, exemptions, fast-tracking, tax breaks, etc. is a big public utility battery facility in the state (MI).
This is a relatively accurate recollection. Each of the components of Seamonkey (which was the successor to Netscape, containing Navigator, Communicator, and others as you mentioned) was eventually rolled into a separate standalone project, some of which were part of the overall Mozilla Project and some which were done by the community outside of Mozilla. The IRC client even got spun out as ChatZilla as a standalone piece of software, as did the webpage editor/publisher (analogous to MS Front Page).
> I'm not quite sure what you mean

IMO, for the general public, current AI models are much closer to cars than they are to anti-personnel weapons, when plotted on risk/benefit axes. FWIW, vehicle regulations are not an all-or-nothing affair either - there are things that remain verboten.

Those who claim AIs are too dangerous to be in the hands of the public have ulterior motives, and/or are far more optimistic than I am on the speed and ease the chasm between LLM and general intelligence will be bridged - if it at all.
> Mr. Garber, the Second World War was also an inferno for German book and library culture. Do we now know more or less exactly what damage and losses occurred at which collection locations in Germany?

> Yes, most of the damage is known and extends across the entire old German Reich, from Karlsruhe to Kiel, from Munich to Königsberg. The largest German library in the Reich was hit most spectacularly. In July 1943, the Hamburg City Library alone lost 700,000 volumes in “Aktion Gomorrha”. As far as the individual titles themselves are concerned, the relevant data is often still missing - unfortunately. There is no large and accurate work on the books and libraries that once existed and were lost or not returned during the Second World War.

> How do you assess the historical and intellectual damage caused to our cultural memory by the absence of German books?

> I will answer this question with a quote from the first expert on the subject from 1947: “It is a catastrophe that has no comparison in the history of libraries and in the history of science” (Georg Leyh). We have no account of the demise of German libraries. Germany has lost significant parts of its cultural memory forever. But who knows about it? Conversely, the greatest crime committed by Germany has led to an irretrievable loss of urban silhouettes and cultural witnesses. The answer? Never-ending mourning and never-ending work of remembrance.

https://www.fr.de/kultur/literatur/eine-katastrophe-11007951...

Generally, the cultural loss via burning down libraries and knowledge is inherent to war, and obviously does not only affect one country. The article also mentions the Library of Warsaw as an example of lost knowledge, but the loss of german culture "has no comparison in the history of libraries", per renowned librarian Georg Leyh.

P.S.: Germany still does not own the Berlinka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinka_(art_collection)
To make things more complicated, I have a brushless drill where the clutch dial does actually adjust the torque of the motor -- torque limiting is done entirely in software, and the ring electrically sets the limit. Once you hit the torque limit, the drill gives a small amount of "force feedback" and cuts power to the motor until the trigger is pulled again.

As a nice additional feature, the drill slow starts and limits the top speed in lower torque settings.

I end up using the drill for small screws (generally on electronics) a lot more than one normally would, as the soft torque limit works fast enough to not strip screws or heads.
Wheelchair users have no bargaining power against wheelchair makers.

Car buyers have leverage.

Normally this exorbitant price would incentivize competition in a healthy market, but the private equity players presumably make that difficult. There might also be barriers to entry in the market.
This seems amazing, except for the fact that it's not open source and can't be self-hosted.

That, to me at least, is the most important part of a note-taking app.
Fat citation needed on "order of magnitude cheaper".

OCI is a hyperscaler/established provider and offers GPUs for quite cheap compared to the others. They are competitive with Runpod, Vast, and Salad, especially if you negotiate (which everyone who knows this business does).
US official urges China, Russia to declare AI will not control nuclear weapons
If you want to hear more about the negative impact of private equity on various industries, like retirement homes etc, I'd recommend the book Plunder. Eye-opening stuff.
I'm not exactly sure what you were expecting - the app has been live for a day
1. The article doesn't say the sample are diagnosed with depression, that rings an alarm, that should be an important parameter.

2. The article says SEVERAL times that the results should be taken with caution and a grain of salt, for several reasons explained.

3. psilo, AS IS, doesn't have good pharmacodynamics, meaning it doesn't stay very long in the bloodstream, which doesn't make it suitable as a REAL TREATMENT like prescribed AD, that mean you would have a spike of an effect and a fast come-down. That's bad. Of course it works in a controlled environment, but it's not an everyday treatment, that leads to point 5.

4. So as always, this shows a road for synthetic "copies" of that substance that would imitate the active effect, but psilo cannot compete with classic AD. This is still good, but to me, it's not worthy news about AD, I would still hold my breath.

5. I am bothered because those headlines can be read by people with depression who might seek psilo as a medicine if AD aren't enough. People with depression are already quite vulnerable, and there are many stories of people having permanent side effects.
> Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down.

As a software engineer with a CPA, it’s been brutal. I was laid off in January and have received zero interviews in 100 applications. I’ve received 3 responses, which led to an initial conversation and then being ghosted. I’ve received about 10 rejections. The rest have had no response.
2024 Open Hardware Summit [video]
2024 Open Hardware Summit livestream recoding
LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community available for all operating systems
LinuxMint 21.3 MATE

I surprised myself recently by realising that I've been using LinuxMint for about 10-12 years.

I would probably prefer to use Debian Testing, but the Debian politics means that I have to use MariaDB instead of MySQL. That's the sort of thing that means I would have to jump through extra hoops when writing software that accesses the databases to get past those little inconsistencies.
Speeding up ELF relocations for store-based systems
So fix California's absurd energy policy. They "deregulated" by giving PG&E a monopoly, paid Enron an absurd ransom when Enron did what should have been considered fraud and made Californian's pay the state back, routinely harm individual solar owners, and refuse to give PG&E any reason to actually maintain their century old infrastructure that sits in a dry forest etc.

People repeatedly point at California fucking up "X" and then say "look how bad X is" ignoring that the other 48 states in the union (Texas also likes to find innovative ways to fuck things up) are doing various amounts of "alright" to "quite well actually" at "X".

For example, Maine also "deregulated" it's electricity sector in the 90s, and is only recently facing problems from the state sanctioned monopoly doing bullshit, and they have an actual excuse that we haven't built out new generation capacity since deregulation, and climate change means we have had an entire year of windstorms destroying the grid, including multiple storms taking out distribution to 1/3rd of the state.
The brevity of this statement belies the prescience of it. Back in my former life in PE, businesses with industry moats were actively hunted down and targeted, regardless of location. That obviously led to the three basic necessities of man - healthcare, education and housing - being the most affected sectors.
If you don’t know who owns something, that’s not transparency.
> And, over the few years that followed (funded by AOL Time Warner), several web browsers were created which used that core Mozilla code. Web browsers that, for the most part, have long been forgotten.

> Web Browsers such as Galeon, K-Meleon, QBAT.i, and SkipStone. Many browsers, for many platforms… all built using the core Mozilla web rendering engine. Yet there was no official “Mozilla” web browser.

This isn't true, right? After it took code from Netscape, Mozilla continued to ship browser called Mozilla Navigator, well before Firefox was concieved.
Because at the time, the three "official" projects had inter-related codenames. The browser component came first and the name change from Phoenix to Firebird had already happened, then email and calendaring were started which became Thunderbird and Sunbird respectively. The name generation scheme that they settled on was element + animal, and is the same reason they ultimately chose the name Firefox (element + animal).
I've used GrapheneOS for years and I'm doing banking on my phone just fine.
> Regulatory intervention makes it harder, not easier, for individuals to take charge of these matters for themselves.

That strongly depends on the details. In particular, regulation that compel clear disclosure of information to individuals.

Imagine how impossible it would be to "take charge for yourself" if none of the food in the grocery store had any ingredient/nutrition/allergen information, and bottles of pills didn't tell you the active ingredients and amounts.
Low impact exercise, swimming worked wonders for my back pain.
> feel free to describe to HN how Mulvad protects users against ad networks.

A VPN is not enough for privacy. But in combination with a privacy-focused browser, you make sure to block third-party cookies and other tracking technologies used by the data collectors.

That's why we partnered with the Tor Project to develop Mullvad Browser – a browser designed to minimize tracking and fingerprints.

Please also note that this information is clearly displayed on our landing page. We don't want people using our service for things it's not designed for.
Nuclear actually is safe by pure incident metrics, even when counting higher casualty estimates for Chernobyl.

The safety, of course, is not intrinsic: nuclear material is obviously very dangerous, especially in a running reactor.

The safety record stems from the considerable regulation around building and operating these reactors, and the fact that the reactor has so little external surface area once running:

* A very small fuel acquisition operation in comparison to fossil fuels.

* Likewise, no externally released pollution outside of accidents, which is rare.

* sites chosen for construction are picked for their stability, and are heavily engineered, meaning you also don’t have the
installation worksite deaths which run up numbers for wind and solar.

But again, this is only realized if the operational safety onsite is maintained. That said, it’s not the only dangerous power generation site: dammed hydroelectric can be a considerable danger depending on what is downstream.

In general, I think nuclear would be very popular if natural gas and solar were not available; however, the costs to keep it safe are too high for it to be economical compared to those two sources.
I've never before gone 4 levels of parentheses deep whilst reading text that isn't programming code.
A lot of people have mentioned this, so I'll add the toggle to disable "local artists only" to the top of my TODO. Though I suppose genre filtering would need to be built first, or it would be obnoxious.
Recent sodium battery developments might make renewable variability a moot point though. I want to support moonshots and “all options,” but cost management is also important (capital is finite if we’re not going to do MMT). How do you know when to stop throwing good money after bad? When does experimentation turn into pork? Hard to solve for imho, but I am curious what people smarter than me think.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248627
Yes? They serve food.
Swiss government to use phone data to identify asylum seekers
This one in particular does not. I'm not sure about the enforceability of other forced arbitration agreements in the EU.

> To protect our users outside the United States, we’ve decided to modify this clause so that it only affects users in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, this clause does not apply to you

https://discord.com/safety/terms-of-service-feedback-and-cha...
Phylogenomics and the Rise of the Angiosperms
When I was in martial arts, breaking landscaping blocks with a palm strike was not difficult at all, but did sting like a hard high five. The trick is a stiff hand, but not so stiff as to be inflexible, and hitting mostly with the meat of your hand.

A regular punch or knife hand is much more prone to injury because of the more fragile bits being closer to the action.
> I think most people are unable to draw a line from the carbon tax to how it financially benefits them

I probably agree, but if people can't draw that line from quarterly deposits into their bank accounts, it feels pretty hopeless.

Maybe digital money is too ephemeral and the government should have insisted on mailing paper cheques to everyone.
> (think cheap Nissans and Subarus)

You don't even need to limit it to the lower end models with Subaru. The top trim Outback and Ascent have a CVT these days. If you want an automatic transmission in your WRX, same thing - a CVT. Anyway, you're not wrong.
Iconiq Raises $5.15B
It's on steam also https://store.steampowered.com/app/289440/Perimeter/
In my heart I still think we should be able to make negative carbon wood for construction and paper products. Surely this is doable, right? Trees sequester the carbon so we just have to make the supply chain clean and not re-release it back into the atmosphere via decomposition.
I agree with a lot of the general advice here. I definitely agree with you on some stuff, some stuff maybe you could flex on a little bit.

Lots of small-minded idiots here. But this is a giant country. There are different people in different places. Try moving as close to Silicon Valley as you can. You will, without a doubt, find a whole bunch of people with your exact same mindset.

Americans are not lazy. If you want to work hard, you’re in the right place. We’re statistically one of the hardest working counties. This is where all of the antidepressants come in though. We’re overworked, and we don’t have a sense of purpose outside of work.

Which leads me to… you’re doing a lot right now. A ton. It’s pretty difficult and rare to be able to keep up with how you are living, especially if your responsibilities grow. Be careful not to over strain yourself and make sure to keep a sense of self and purpose outside of your hustles. I personally had a meltdown in my early twenties that was partially brought on by these factors.

Finally, like others said, try to find a way to find common ground with the muggles around you. The faster realize that you’re not better than them, the faster you will find relief from the stress.
And also it is true that social media has little to no followers, but please keep in mind that all accounts are new, and so is the product. I am planning on improving it in many different ways and I can assure you it won't be left to die in a few weeks. I'll also make sure to add a section with information about me on the website like your comment suggested.
When replicators are invented, most political problems will disappear. Star Trek got it right.
Windows 10, eh?

I refuse to use anything past Windows 7. (When I have to use Windows, that is.)
I see manually managed groups in Sidebery but nothing automatic... it doesn't look like you can move more than one tab into a group at a time, or even move a single tab into a specific group without manually dragging through a huge scrolling list to find it.
I mean they could market similar to Not a Wheelchair I guess? https://notawheelchair.com/products/the-rig
I personally paid for Fortran compilers from Absoft, Lahey, Microsoft, NA Software, Imagine1 (for the F subset of Fortran), Digital, and Compaq in the past. The former two are no longer sold, and Compaq Visual Fortran became Intel Fortran, which is now free. I would be open to paying for a compiler if it is better than free offerings.
You're missing the bulk of the already small market if you're assuming people signing up for your app will universally have Spotify tracks up or their own YouTube channel. Soundcloud is more likely, but still not a given, as it's geared towards mostly finished tracks. Hint: the most sought after band members are bassists and drummers, and they don't tend to do solo tracks.

You want people to be able to have a low quality video of them noodling or playing along to something for 30 seconds.
A neat idea would be to have “projects.” Each account/profile has a default/personal “project,” meaning a contained instance of matching. But they’re also able to create additional “projects.” So if someone wants to look for a match for a specific project or a new band they can create a new project and swipe across all accounts. Would be cool to set up filters when creating a project, so that the options to swipe are more relevant to the current “project” at hand. Making it easier to find a match
This quickly turned from a lightsaber battle into an XSS battle. Negotiations were short.
The idea of running workloads on the cheapest compute platform is interesting.
That was 2001.
RoomMateMatch, JobMatch, and ToiletPaperMatch are all in the works, I just have to copy paste the repo and find-replace the brand names.
Future self employment income should be discounted for risk. Some people might (will) not pay and potential projects never start or actual projects get cancelled at higher rates than layoffs in ordinary employment.

Cash flow is another issue. Employment pays regularly. Contract work does not so you might go a few months between paydays. If you can’t afford that, you are under capitalized.

A better job is another option. Sure job hunting sucks. But self employment means you are always job hunting. And anyway, you could find a better job and still work on the side.

Good luck.
I remember seeing this game on G4 during a review segment and thought it would be so slick.
Large single family homes have 400A 1Ø 120/240V service, which is 96 kW peak or 76.8 kW for NEC's definition of continuous. Most have 200A service or smaller, which is half that.

What load do you imagine causes "most" homes to exceed 100 kW, and "some much higher"?
It's app accessible root with a massive portion of the OS trusted with giving out access to it that's a huge problem and massively rolls back OS security against compromise. It also means an accessibility service can trivially escalate to root with no way to revoke it beyond reinstalling the OS or doing a wipe from recovery. You also lose the main security properties of verified boot, which is based around avoiding trust in persistent state. Raising the bar for physical attacks is a secondary purpose of verified boot, not the main one.

GrapheneOS already has fine-grained firewall support exposed to the user via the standard VPN service feature which despite misconceptions can be used while also using an actual VPN and there are multiple apps supporting this. It's not simply difficult to set up firewall rules where leaks aren't possible but rather it doesn't really work because not everything is done via direct socket access from the apps. This is why we have our Network toggle in the first place, which does a lot more than blocking direct socket access both to block indirect access and preserve compatibility by pretending the network is down for the most important APIs.

These DNS leak issues which were reported to us earlier may be an app bug which can be worked around by the app. The OS could be changed to prevent this happening but that doesn't imply that it's an OS bug. More investigation is required to determine the cause and solution. We're also aware of a local network multicast leak that's not covered in Mullvad's post, which is very likely to be an Android OS bug but we aren't certain about that yet either. It's worth noting that neither the DNS leak issues or local network multicast leak issue impact the built-in VPN support. They're only happening with VPN apps. It's likely that some of this is caused by bugs in the Android VPN service app support (particularly the multicast packet leaks) but the DNS leaks are quite possibly an app flaw. Mullvad's post acknowledges they found a way to address one of the forms of leaks with changes to their app, which may be possible for the rest since there aren't leaks when the VPN is down but rather when it's in the process of reconnecting. It looks a lot like a race condition where the VPN is being activated before everything is in place, which could be a bug in the OS but could also be a bug in the app where it's doing something in a different order than what's intended.
JSONPath has excellent documentation, you can absolutely answer that question for yourself very easily.
A very good question! No clue. I do see weirdos on Twitter defending it for dumb reasons, but that can't account for it all.
Regulation always increases costs, it's just that not all costs are easily visible
> suspend

Right, but the article says nothing about suspending and seems to strongly suggest that tabs take "no ram at all" by default, which is just plain false, unless I'm misunderstanding something. I don't even see a way to suspend tabs without a separate extension.
I used to have a rage problem until about 5 years ago. I broke a number of phones in the few years before that, so I bought a rugged one. In my last ever bout of rage, I threw the phone at the wall. I expected the phone to break, but instead it made a hole in the wall. I spent ages researching how to fix it and in the end ended up using quickfill and painting over it several times. From that point onwards, I've always preferred handstand pushups when I'm feeling agitated.
The reason eastern europe rushed to NATO is simply because the west was quite wealthy as a capitalist bloc, and the former communist countries viewed the west as a holy grail. If the eastern europeans wanted access to the european markets, they would have to go through EU integration, and of course NATO. Its not like they could join the EU if they still were in a warsaw-pact like military alliance. The truth is, the west had more influence because of their economies.
One potential value of CC today is as a final and most flexible solution. Even with the limited and experimental technology of today, which is obviously economically insane, we have a way (with enough money) to make anything carbon neutral. The value is not that we actually do that (humanity cannot afford it, in general), but instead to give us the number to beat, the correct carbon tax, the absolute cost of failing to decarbonise.

It’s easier to justify improved efficiency when the cost of spilling carbon is a big number of dollars rather than a tiny slither of a global problem.

That said, I do agree investment should be limited, it’s obviously only going to be the “best” solution in the rare circumstance that there is no good solution.
That was a huge shift indeed - when my grandmother took “Home Economics” it was all about having enough safely-cooked calories for manual laborers (Illinois where she grew up ran to farm and factory workers) and nobody could afford anything like the amount of meat or dairy we now eat. My grandfather used to eat beef a few times per year, when the cousins who had dairy cattle culled the herd.